| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction: Focusing the Question | p. 1 |
| The Recurring Debate: Does God Exist? | p. 1 |
| God versus Science: The Dawkins/Collins Debate | p. 5 |
| Does God Exist? Was There a Time when the Question Did Not Arise? | p. 7 |
| Mythos and Logos | p. 10 |
| Questioning the Questions | p. 12 |
| From the Classroom: Student Questions and Responses | p. 13 |
| Questions for Reflection | p. 14 |
| Questioning the Philosophy of Religion | |
| Questioning Assumptions about Religious Belief | p. 19 |
| Believing Is the Focal Act of Faith | p. 19 |
| Not All Religions Are Belief-Focused | p. 19 |
| Even Religions That See to Be Belief-Focused May Not Be as Much as They Seem | p. 21 |
| Assuming That Faith Is Belief-Focused Narrows Our Vision | p. 22 |
| Believing Is Not an Intentional Activity | p. 25 |
| Believing Is Too Cognitive and Too Logo-Centric to Be the Focal Act of Faith | p. 26 |
| Many Serious Thinkers Have Suggested Other Things as Being Religiously Focal | p. 27 |
| The Term Believe Is Not Univocal | p. 32 |
| From the Classroom: Student Questions and Responses | p. 39 |
| Questions for Critical Reflection | p. 42 |
| Questioning Assumptions about God's Existence | p. 45 |
| The Basic Religious Question Is about the Existence of God | p. 45 |
| God Is Not a Thing That May or May Not Exist | p. 45 |
| Does God Exist? Being Fooled by a Misdirected Question | p. 46 |
| Does God Exist? Being Fooled by Grammar | p. 48 |
| Does X Exist? The Temptation of the Question | p. 50 |
| From the Classroom: Student Questions and Responses | p. 51 |
| Questions for Critical Reflection | p. 53 |
| Questioning Assumptions about Religious Language | p. 55 |
| Religious Language Is Primarily Referential | p. 55 |
| Referential and Nonreferential Meaning | p. 55 |
| My Son's Atheism | p. 57 |
| How Is God-Language Used? | p. 57 |
| From the Classroom: Student Questions and Responses | p. 61 |
| Questions for Critical Reflection | p. 63 |
| Rethinking the Philosophy of Religion | |
| Rethinking Religious Faith | p. 67 |
| Religion as a Way of Seeing | p. 67 |
| Religious Language as Parable? | p. 73 |
| Poetry: A Prerequisite for Faith? | p. 74 |
| Faith and Imagination | p. 76 |
| Religious Faith: An Imagination-Shaped Way of Seeing | p. 76 |
| Some Prejudices against Imagination | p. 77 |
| The Power of Imagination: Some Testimonials | p. 81 |
| Religious Imagination | p. 82 |
| Religious Faith as Experiencing-As | p. 84 |
| A Critical View and a Response | p. 85 |
| A Theory of Religious Discourse | p. 89 |
| From the Classroom: Student Questions and Responses | p. 92 |
| Questions for Critical Reflection | p. 94 |
| Rethinking the Rationality of Faith | p. 95 |
| The Question of the Rationality of Faith | p. 95 |
| Newton's Scientific Achievement Revisited | p. 96 |
| The Democratic Achievement Revisited | p. 97 |
| The Pragmatic Examination of Religion: James, Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud | p. 100 |
| Some Problems with the Pragmatic Critique | p. 107 |
| Preliminary Conclusions | p. 108 |
| Fruitfulness as a Criterion? | p. 109 |
| Faith and the Fulfillment of the Human | p. 113 |
| Is Religious Faith Rational? One More Time Around | p. 117 |
| Some Concluding Thoughts | p. 121 |
| Some Implications | p. 122 |
| From the Classroom: Student Questions and Responses | p. 124 |
| Questions for Critical Reflection | p. 126 |
| Glossary | p. 127 |
| Works Cited | p. 131 |
| Annotated Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 135 |
| Index | p. 139 |
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